Health, Environment, and the Arts (HEART) Initiative to Host Digital Storytelling Workshop
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The Health, Environment, and the Arts (HEART) initiative is sponsoring a digital storytelling workshop on January 7-9, 2025 to bolster interdisciplinary connections and forge new arts-based research synergies on campus.
Faculty, staff, deans, and librarians are invited to participate in the Digital Storytelling Workshop while learning about how arts-based practices can enrich their own research and promote collaboration across campus. RSVP here
Funded by a UMass LIRA grant this year, the HEART team members include Aline Gubrium (PI – Health Promotion and Policy), Sarah Goff (Health Promotion and Policy), Sally Pirie (Education), Marla Miller (History), Sandy Litchfield (Architecture), and Elizabeth (Betsy) Krause (Anthropology). Gubrium will facilitate the workshop, and materials, meals, and refreshments will be provided.
Faculty across the campus, in Humanities and Fine Arts, Public Health and Health Sciences, Nursing, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and other areas have been engaging in research and outreach that harnesses the power of the arts to address complex problems in society, ranging from gender and sexually diverse people, inclusion, and navigating the health insurance industry; global struggles, war, and peace; critical literacies and public education; dignity-based approaches to aging and caretaking; reproductive justice; and the power of plants and negotiating food, human-animal, and environmental politics. The HEART initiative aims to create opportunities for interdisciplinary work that intentionally nurtures arts-based research practices and their unique power to develop and communicate resources and solutions.